Popeyes Plucks Burke for Communications

Wed., Jul. 9, 2014

He takes a post vacated last year by Alicia Thompson, now a senior VP at Edelman. He will lead internal and external comms., public and government affairs, for Popeyes, which changed its corporate identity from AFC Enterprises in January.

Burke spent the bulk of his career in the aviation sector, including as VP of corporate communications in seven years at JetBlue Airways, as well as PR posts at TWA and American Airlines dating back to the mid-1980s. He recently did a 10-month stint in external relations at Pacific Gas & Electric in the Bay Area.